Dixon Hall Lewis

Dixon Hall Lewis (10 August 1802-25 October 1848) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-AL 3) from 4 March 1829 to 4 March 1833 (succeeding George Washington Owen and preceding Samuel Wright Mardis) and from 4 March 1843 to 22 April 1844 (succeeding George Whitfield Crabb and preceding William Lowndes Yancey), from AL 4 from 4 March 1833 to 3 March 1841, and from the at-large district from 4 March 1841 to 3 March 1843. He then served as a US Senator from 22 April 1844 to 25 October 1848, succeeding William R. King and preceding Benjamin Fitzpatrick.

Biography
Dixon Hall Lewis was born in Dinwiddie County, Virginia in 1802, and he moved to Hancock, Georgia with his parents in 1806. He became a lawyer in Autauga County, Alabama in 1823, and he served in the state legislature before serving in the US House of Representatives from 1829 to 1844 and in the US Senate from 1844 until his death in 1848. With a weight of 500 pounds, he was the heaviest member of the US Congress in history, and his colleagues joked that Alabama had the largest representation of any state. He died at the young age of 46.